Long French Poems
Long French Poems. Below are the most popular long French by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long French poems by poem length and keyword.
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval MarvelCharles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Charles D'Orleans TranslationsSpring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
french, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Fortunes Re ToldFORTUNES READ the sign displayed
TRINKETS, CHARMS AND SPELLS
The store had not been here yesterday
shades of candles, books and bell
Drapes were hung from side to side
The windows all were dark
Where was this place a day ago?
Just...
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Categories:
french, surreal,
Form:
Epic
Limericks Vi - ReligionLimericks VI - Religion
Pell-Mell for Hell Mel
by Michael R. Burch
There once was a Baptist named Mel
who condemned all non-Christians to hell.
When he stood before God
he felt like a clod
to discover His Love couldn’t fail!
Why I...
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Categories:
french, christian, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, religion, religious,
Form:
Limerick
Chapter 126 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Holly's Orientation and InvitationDate: July 2049
Early morning combinations
Personal hygiene conversations
And kisses in most of the Hakim
Households. Damian was negotiating
For properties in Virginia namely
Virginia Beach. He wanted the
Prosperous realty. He spoke...
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Categories:
french, allusion, birth, devotion,
Form:
Prose
Chaucer Translation: RejectionRejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds your mercy by a chain.
I'm guiltless, yet my sentence has...
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Categories:
beauty, french, heart, innocence, nature, pride, women,
Form:
Roundel
There's Still Love - the Quatern Style~ There's Still Love ~
( Quatern )
~O~
There's still Love. Just open heart wide.
Have Faith! See the Light! Don't be blind.
Just climb each mountain. Dream! Believe.
Seek God each day, with Him,...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”
BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged legs all the way down to
Lethal Six Inch stilettos...
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Categories:
french, america, bible, corruption, imagery, war,
Form:
Free verse
Love Faith Peace And Hope - The Retourne Style
~ Love Faith Peace And Hope ~
( Retourne )
~O~
Jesus our Savior and that's so.
Study God's Word and you will grow.
Always keep Love, Faith, Peace, and Hope.
He'll come...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Veronica Franco TranslationsVeronica Franco translations
Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was a Venetian courtesan who wrote literary-quality poetry and prose.
Capitolo 19: A Courtesan's Love Lyric (I)
by Veronica Franco
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
"I resolved to make a virtue of...
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Categories:
desire, french, joy, love, lust, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
french, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
An Ordinary Girl - Translation From TagoreSharing my translation of a famous poem (Sadharan Meye) written by Rabindranath Tagore, who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. It's one of his story-like poems, written in Bengali, which is one of the...
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Categories:
french, life, loss,
Form:
Narrative
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans TranslationOft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
french, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Jean Lapresle: the Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
...
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Categories:
celebrity, endurance, french, loss, solitude, tribute,
Form:
Elegy
The Holy Bible - the Quatern Style~ The Holy Bible ~
(Quatern)
It tells the beginning of man
How God created all from start
He made the moon, stars, earth, day, night
It tells of...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Worship and Praise - the Pantoum Style~ Worship And Praise ~
( Pantoum )
~O~
Worship God, pray each day, all way.
Keep the Lord always in my life.
Surely follow Him every day.
Worship and Praise, in good...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Easy Or Hard - the Quatern Style~ Easy Or Hard ~
( Quatern )
~O~
We can't have everything we want
Some folks around with almost all
While some folks don't even get some
But that's life, better accept it....
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Without God - the Quatern Style~ Without God ~
( Quatern )
~O~
Pressures in life, strong, too many
The Devil wants to kill, destroy
He'll do this only if allowed
But with God, he has no power.
~o~
World beautiful, but fille'd ...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Worship and Praise - the Pantoum Style~ Worship And Praise ~
( Pantoum )
~O~
Worship God, each day, all the way.
Keep the Lord always in my life.
Try follow Him in all each day.
Worship, praise...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Unquotable Quotes: Journalists - Dedication To Andre Fontaine - XxviUnquotable quotes: Tale-Carriers, Gossip-Mongers, Courrier-Pigeon Caretakers, Smoke-Signal Puffers and Tom-Tom Thumpers – XXVI
Could there be such things as political shenanigans or inter-continental warfares, even catastrophes, natural disasters, tsunamis, irruptions, conflagrations, inundations, landslides, typhoons, tornadoes, hurricanes,...
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Categories:
french, power,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
You Lift Me Up - the Trine Style~ You Lift Me Up ~
(Trine)
When troubles blow my way and just come
You help me see better and then some.
You lift my spirit up and my soul like no one can...
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Categories:
french, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Marat and Charlotte(A somnambulistic drama in four acts)
Actors:
Jean-Paul Marat;
Charles Barbarou;
Charlotte Corday;
1st Philosopher;
2nd Philosopher;
The Commentator’s Voice.
Act 1. A tavern. Two philosopher sit at the table;
Marat sits at the other, some distance away.
1st Philosopher
…or even worse:...
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Categories:
french, death, life, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Additional Advice To Those Would Be King From the Thiruk-Kural With CommentaryAdditional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or even empires]
K442: urranOy niikki uraa amai munkaakkum
...
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Categories:
french, bullying, immigration, prison, religion, sympathy, tamil, violence,
Form:
Epigram
Political Science of Organic ClimatologyPolitical Science is the compare and contrast study
of governing authority powers
with concomitant economic responsibilities,
and...um...opportunities,
speaking perhaps too candidly.
Why not other powers,
nutritional loves that can be owned only cooperatively,
can be, and would like to become, health invested,
but...
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Categories:
french, beauty, earth, health, love, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Growing Up, La - Part 2- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -
By ten years old, no weekends off,
Or Saturday cartoons,
Although I did have cash to spend,
I felt my...
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Categories:
french, life, , cute,
Form:
Rhyme